I support a family of four on a single income. It is a difficult task as the kids are home schooled by my wife and we are faced with an onslaught of out of infinitely out of control spending in Washington by Democrats Republicans and Independents. Angus King, Susan Collins, Bruce Poliquin and Chellie Pingree have all been part of or complacent to our debt so big that our great-grandchildren-times-five will still be paying back. Remember folks, debt has to be paid back. There are also other major issues, some that can get you killed, that these politicians have recklessly “accomplished’ by action or inaction, but that for another day.

Now back here in Maine I see a governor that does indeed have a mouth like General George S. Patton. I remind my liberal friends that despite Patton’s explosive tongue, he did if fact drive the evil socialists Nazi’s all the way to Berlin. I remind them that Lepage is what everybody has always wanted, someone who is not a politician, but a builder of opportunity for Maine’s Children. He has paid our hospitals back, something Democrats and some Republicans never intended on ever doing. He pursued and built a more business friendly environment for my children so that hopefully they won’t leave Maine in a few years. He genuinely seeks smaller government that keeps more money in a working person’s pocket which supercharges the economy by natural market force. He is a builder of opportunely for my children and the proof is in the pudding, as he gave us the largest tax cut in Maine’s history and much more.

Democrats and the liberal media have fought this man at every step. The liberal Maine American Civil Liberties Union even attacked his attempts to hire more law enforcement to stop heroin trafficking, (aclumaine.org Feb. 4 2015). However, despite all the adolescent attacks on Gov. Lepage, he is still a builder. For my household, I looking for a builder and not advocates of big greedy government programs that keep the poor poorer. Emily Cain wants a government program to have government schools weigh your daughters, google Emily Facts. Eloise Vitelli wants to use your tax money fund welfare for illegal aliens!

The builders that I am looking for are people like Guy Lebida. Guy voted for reducing energy costs, welfare reform, keeping healthcare choices in the hands of families and out of the hands of politicians and bureaucrats. Eloise Vitelli voted against you on all of these issues. See more on this on www.GuyLebida.com

Guy’s heart is the same as described above in our Governor, to help me sustain and prosper my small family, all of our families. The great John F. Kennedy said “a rising tide lifts all boats” Guy Libida is all about for all of us in Maine.

Edward A. Tharp lives in Woolwich